The Quin

101 West 57th Street | also 1401 Avenue of the Americas, 103 West 57th Street | Midtown | built 1927

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1925
Emery Roth designs the Buckingham Hotel for the Uris Brothers
Architect Emery Roth designs a Renaissance Revival apartment hotel for the Uris Brothers at 101 West 57th Street, commissioned in 1923 and opened in 1925. Double-height arcades trimmed with terra cotta columns mark the building's twelfth and thirteenth floors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1941
Pianist Ignacy Paderewski dies at the Buckingham Hotel
Polish pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski dies at the Buckingham Hotel in 1941, one of a string of musicians who lodge there, including Artur Rubinstein, who arrives in 1940 after his daughter's chicken pox quarantine at Ellis Island, and pianist Van Cliburn, who moves in by 1955.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1944
Damon Runyon lives at the Buckingham while battling throat cancer
Writer Damon Runyon lives at the Buckingham Hotel from 1943 until 1946, undergoing surgery for throat cancer in 1944 that leaves him unable to speak. His stay comes amid decades of literary and musical guests at the Emery Roth-designed hotel on West 57th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2013
November 11
The Buckingham reopens as The Quin after a renovation
Following a renovation led by Perkins Eastman, the former Buckingham Hotel reopens on November 11, 2013, as The Quin, a 208-room luxury hotel with 28 suites across seventeen floors. The rebranded hotel launches an artist-in-residence program the following year.
Source: Wikipedia

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